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this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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Simple answer: Because we've written AIs that work in the digital world, and mines, oil fields, toxic chemicals, and ocean plastic all exist in the real world. If you build a robotic body or arm or some way to do what the people in those places are doing, the AI could control it and do the job.
This is the one potential upside with things like Tesla Optimus. With a sufficiently general purpose bipedal humanoid robot under AI control, that robot COULD work oil fields and mines and toxic chemicals and the like.
However I suspect the miners, oil workers, waste handlers, and ocean cleanup technicians would rather keep their jobs, hazardous or not.
Machinery already replaced nearly all the jobs in places like coal mines (in the west). It did increase the safety for the remaining workers, who are mostly machine operators now.
Turns out that a huge-ass loader does more useful work than a LOT of humanoid forms. Optimus is about dreaming of never having to deal with servent classes. Its the modern dumb waiter.
Yup, and to be more exact the reason that this is the case is that training large models requires a LOT of training data.
We have a repository of text and video, the Internet, but we do not have a similar repository of training data for robotics.
That data is being created and robotics models are being trained but it is significantly more expensive when your training data isn't mass produced for free* by people on the Internet.
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